Dynamic remodeling of the endomembrane system is a core biological process essential for maintaining cellular ...

The Min protein system prevents abnormal cell division in bacteria, but is poorly understood. Researchers have uncovered how engineered e.coli bacteria control protein levels for maximum efficiency.

Cells have a mailing system of sorts. They can release tiny molecular balls, called extracellular vesicles (EVs), that ...

Structural studies of membrane proteins historically have relied almost exclusively on first removing membrane proteins from the membrane with dispersive agents like detergents. But dispersive agents ...

Strengths: The authors argue that the use of various concentrations of KCL in the extracellular fluid depolarize or hyperpolarize the cell pellets used, and that this change in membrane potential is ...

Department of Life Sciences, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, The University of Tokyo, 3-8-1 Komaba, Meguro-ku, Tokyo 153-8902, Japan Department of Life Sciences, Graduate School of Arts and ...

Hemolytic anemia occurs when red blood cells are destroyed faster than they can be replaced. The loss of red blood cells means that fewer are available to carry oxygen and nutrients to tissues or ...

Endosomes are membrane-bound compartments within cells that play an essential role in sorting and ... and these ILVs are later released through exocytosis. So based on this process exosomes biogenesis ...

The specific lipid composition of cell membrane microenvironments plays a critical role ... including signaling, division, endo- and exocytosis, and multicellular communication. However, endowing ...

In NPC1 cells, SFN induces TFEB nuclear translocation via a ROS-Ca 2+-calcineurin dependent but MTOR-independent pathway and upregulates the expression of TFEB-downstream genes, promoting lysosomal ...

Such membrane-cytoskeleton-coupled processes include: the formation of filopodia, lamellipodia and podosomes for cell movement or cancer-cell invasion; endocytosis, phagocytosis, exocytosis and ...